Indivisibles,

What a weekend! Watching the last few days of news, from the South Carolina primary to three presidential candidates suspending their campaigns to ever-expanding coverage of how important this year’s Senate races are, it’s hard not to feel that we’re rocketing towards election day, with ever-changing information, at breakneck speeds. 

With the constant changes, we've been getting a lot of questions about the presidential candidates, and we have something to share in advance of tomorrow. As the facts lay, former Vice President Joe Biden and Mike Bloomberg are the furthest aligned from our movement's values and have not shown themselves to be candidates especially concerned with engaging our, or any, grassroots movements. For a more in-depth analysis, check out our new Medium post on how these candidates are ignoring and resisting the grassroots.

But the Democratic nomination is far from the only race we're watching. Realtalk: If we want to see real change next year, we've got to win the White House, keep the House, and take the Senate. That's where Payback Project comes in. As you know, we're spending a lot of energy on defeating these 10 Trump enablers to pay them back for all the votes they've taken to support Trump's agenda (that's a LOT of votes).

Let's talk updates. Since we wrote to you last week, we've more than doubled the number of voters we've talked to through our texting program to nearly 540,000 Arizonans, Coloradans, and Georgians to hold Senators McSally, Gardner, Perdue, and Loeffler accountable for their Trump-enabling votes. That matters because we're plugging folks in these states directly into Indivisible groups on the ground who are going to be knocking doors, making calls, and texting to defeat them this November.

This is all so exciting to us so we have to keep it up! We’re also coming up with new and exciting ways to get involved. And now, let’s get to those to-dos:

 Your weekly to-dos 

1. Demand your member of Congress Address the Coronavirus Outbreak. Trump and Congressional Republicans are already trying to twist the coronavirus outbreak for their political gain. We need to stand up to their tactics and ensure desperately needed resources are sent to the necessary places. Call your members of Congress and tell them: 1) Don’t let coronavirus response funds get used for anything other than coronavirus response (in other words, prohibit transfers for these funds), 2) Don’t include any “riders” that aren’t related to coronavirus response, and 3) Make sure that any vaccines or treatments for coronavirus are affordable and accessible for everyone.
2. Get involved in the fight for Medicare for All on March 4 at 8 PM ET. Our friends at Public Citizen have invited Indivisible Organizer Tify Burks, along with Congressional champion Rashida Tlaib, to share insights about how to organize locally to keep up the momentum from the primaries for Medicare for All in your community. Make sure to RSVP to learn more from the activists and policymakers who pushed local resolutions across the finish line, and to get organizing updates from across the country.
3. Register for the National Activist Call on March 5th at 8 pm ET The National Activist Call is a monthly space for Indivisible leaders, members and other activists to hear updates and connect with one another. This month we’ll be debriefing the Super Tuesday results, sharing updates about the Payback Project and will hear from a local group leader in Arizona. Don’t forget to register and share the registration with other Indivisible Activists!
4. Text PAYBACK to 977-79 and join this fight right now. Even in the three weeks since we launched this project, we’ve already seen twists and turns and had to drop everything to respond to new Republican schemes. We know that’s not going to stop, which is why we need even more folks texting, donating, and joining local groups!

 2020 Update 

With the conclusion of February comes the conclusion of the early state's primary contests. The results of the South Carolina primary brought in a renewed wave of uncertainty, with former VP Joe Biden surging to victory and capturing a plurality of the popular vote. Sen. Bernie Sanders still holds the plurality of delegates, with 58 delegates. 

• Super Tuesday is tomorrow and the primary is still as uncertain as ever! 14 states and two territories will be allocating over one third of the total delegates up for grabs in this primary. Sen. Bernie Sanders currently holds the lead in many Super Tuesday state polls, but there are a handful of states where there’s been no recent polling, so no clear indication of which candidate will prevail. Want to improve your candidate’s chances in any of the Super Tuesday states? There’s still time for you to make an impact in this primary! Check out Indivisible’s “How to Impact the Primary” resource for more info on what you can do. Not sure who to support? Take a look at our scorecard and see how the candidates stack up. 

• We conducted a survey of Indivisibles and published the results! Grassroots organizers and activists are the fuel that powers national campaigns, so we surveyed Indivisibles nationwide to understand how members of the movement are approaching the race at this point. We know Indivisibles will be a major force in building wins for Democrats up and down the ballot in November, and we’re excited to keep listening and sharing what we learn. Check out our Medium post for a summary of the results of the February survey.
  
  
• Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg, & Amy Klobuchar have dropped out of the primary. We’re thankful to all three candidates for engaging with Indivisible activists during their campaigns and for being champions of environmental justice and democracy reform. We hope that the candidates remaining in the race will embrace some of those priorities, like court reform and filibuster elimination.

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 Support the Payback Project 

The Payback Project is going swimmingly: Indivisibles are using a peer-to-peer texting program called TextOut to get voters in key states involved in holding their senators accountable. We expected to have sent about 140,000 text messages by this month, but literally hundreds of you stepped up, and we’ve sent more than 500,000 texts to voters. 

But we’re charged by the text, and all that enthusiasm means we’re spending through our texting budget a lot faster than we expected. Right now, we’ve spent almost $21,000 more than we planned for this point, and we need to keep spending to reach as many voters as we can while they’re energized. That means we need your help: can you donate $10 to fund our texting program, the Payback Project, and all our work?

 IndivisWin of the Week 

Indivisibles in Illinois's Third District are out canvassing on the first day of early vote for our IndivisiCandidate Marie Newman!

Ok, Indivisibles. Tune in tomorrow to see how the Super Tuesday shakes out and check out our to-dos and take advantage of every opportunity to get involved with our top calls to action. We're engaging in this fight at every level, and we're so grateful for everything you're doing to fight with us. 

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team